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Re: The Aiming Problem

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From: Dan C
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:56
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:33:54 -0700, mooseboyskip wrote:

> Sorry, I can just not get it done.  It's such a sluggish way of
> aiming, and yes I've changed the mouse controls, and tried them on
> several variations, and it's still not easy to aim.  And by not easy,
> I mean, practically impossible for me to aim using the mouse.
> 
> I might have to just give up.  The other problem I've noticed is that
> whenever there's a few monsters in the area, the tracking of the video
> seems jumpy, and disjointed like it's not running smoothly.  I can
> pretty much shoot Imps without the mouse, if I just leave the aim
> point centered, but not when I can't move smoothly.  I bought this
> computer last summer--the game came out in , what, 2004, right?  A
> computer three years older than the game should be able to track
> smoothly right?
> 
> And now with the Lost Souls, I can't even see the fricking things, I'm
> getting bumped around so much.  I couldn't shoot lost souls easily in
> doom2 either, but at least I could move out of their damn way then.
> Now with the tracking difficulty...I just can't get it done.

Pussy.


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